30 people were indicted in the fraud case at ČKD Praha DIZ for 438 million
According to earlier information from the police, the defendants included fictitious invoices in the accounting of the engineering company ČKD Praha DIZ.
According to the VSZ, this is the second branch of the case, in which, according to the previous information of the detectives, the so-called white horses who helped the main characters of the case figure mostly.
In the first branch, the police had already proposed to indict two dozen people from the management of ČKD Praha DIZ and companies with which the engineering enterprise cooperated.
In the ČKD Praha DIZ tax evasion case, the police charged another 35 people
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According to the public prosecutor’s office, the indictment in the second branch of the case was filed for complicity or assistance in the crime of tax evasion.
The actors in the case caused damage to the state by reducing the value added tax (VAT). In some cases, the public prosecutor qualified the actions of the accused as aiding an organized criminal group.
In December 2021, the police filed a motion to indict 22 people who, according to detectives, were the main organizers of tax evasion in the ČKD Praha DIZ case. They are accused of tax evasion, participation in an organized criminal group and money laundering with a loss of 850 million crowns.
According to criminologists, the suspects created a network of companies that supplied ČKD Praha DIZ with fictitious invoices. Thanks to this, the company was able to write off more on VAT and corporate income tax returns.
ČKD Praha DIZ previously belonged to billionaire Petr Speychal, who, according to the media, is the main figure in the case. According to earlier information, the others prosecuted in the first branch of the case are the managers of the company at the time or representatives of companies with which ČKD Praha DIZ did business.
Last January, the police then proposed to indict another 32 people in the case surrounding the ČKD Praha DIZ. According to the investigators, they are mostly so-called white horses who help the main masterminds of criminal activity with tax evasion.
The police charged 22 people in the ČKD Prague DIZ case, the damage is up to 850 million
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